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TIL that the myth of carrots improving your eyesight and helping you see in the dark was WWII propaganda

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lo06r TIL Irish people drink more tea than the British. And while India and China produce most of the world's tea, neither of them is in the top 10 tea drinking countries.
rRDl4 TIL that the reason that both male and female genitals are darker than the surrounding skin is due to sex hormones released by puberty.
WVR9 TIL In the 1970s, Mattel sold a doll called “Growing Up Skipper.” Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.
4X0A5 TIL that Judith Barsi, 10 year old child actress known for ‘A Land Before Time’ and other titles, was shot and killed by her own father in a tragic murder-suicide.
VBw4 TIL a man had multiple plastic surgeries to look exactly like his lover, who later had multiple surgeries of her own, so they could become the same new person.